Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.
You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.
This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730.
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.
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